VIDEO: Alien-like Squid Filmed at Ultra-Deep Oil-Drilling Site

Very strange looking creature indeed!

news.nationalgeographic.com...

Does anybody know what is it, or might be?

A mile and a half (two and a half kilometers) underwater, a remote control submersible's camera has captured an eerie surprise: an alien-like, long-armed, and—strangest of all—"elbowed" Magnapinna squid

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I think it's a Magnapinna squid. I could be wrong.

[edit on 25-11-2008 by Phage]

Read the article. It plainly says that the squid is a Magnapinna squid. No aliens here...Google it up there are plaenty of pics available of them.

They arent a new discovery either apparently. Linky to a 1907 dated description of a variation of the creature

[edit on 25-11-2008 by Lost_Mind]

wooo,that's pretty cool man.

it looks massive!! Straight out of Dickens!

old video. i remember seeing this about a year ago. anyway, it still fascinates me every time i see a documentary on deep sea life. if you ever want to see an alien, just go down there. it's as close as you can get until we find it on another planet, and it's every bit as interesting.

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Doesn't look alien to me, the ocean has many creatures that we don't know what they are or have never seen, this does not make them alien. The Lobster is a ocean dwelling arachnid, this creature looks like a cross between the sting ray and the lobster and the squid to me and looks totally terrestrial to me. Fine example of why we should spend our money looking for life in our oceans before space. We know more about space than we do about our own planets oceans...

Great find though, it should keep the cryptozoologists busy trying to classify it.

[edit on 11/25/2008 by theindependentjournal]

That thing is massive.

Any idea how long that squid is, or how long that species can grow?

Originally posted by nyk537
That thing is massive.

Any idea how long that squid is, or how long that species can grow?

It said, including to the tips of its hanging arms the squid can grow between 7 feet to 26 feet. This one sure looks closer to the 26 feet side.

Theres only 4 species in this class so far.

Flagged as this is truly fascinating footage. It should probably be in the 'Cryptozoology & Mythical Beasts' forum, though, (where creatures new/relatively new to science are usually discussed).

Looks like a pretty slothful dude.

video for anyone who didn't click the link...

Wow! That really is a strange looking thing!

I can't wait till we invent submarines or other equipment that can withstand the enormous pressures and allow us to explore the deep sea oceans a little more.

Fascinating!

Wow,

that was very interesting.

I have never seen a squid like that before.

Our planet needs more exploring.

Originally posted by theindependentjournal
The Lobster is a ocean dwelling arachnid

Not true.

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Infraorder: Astacidea
Family: Nephropidae

Old news I seen this a while back here on ATS, it does look like something straight out of duke nukem tho thats for sure, lol

Since the thread asking about the possibility of the evolution of an intelligent "alien squid" before mankind was closed and redirected here, I'm gonna post my answere in this thread.

Have you ever heard of "The Future is Wild"? It's a TV series of possible lifeforms millions of years in the future after mankind became extinct on earth, with animations of those animals based on descriptions and research/calculations of scientists from various fields.

According to these researchers, one of the first more intelligent species would be the octopus (intelligent not like humans, but in terms of intelligent animals like dolphins, great apes / primates etc.).
They would adapt to land, and use their tentacles to swing from tree to tree, hunting in groups in humid forests.

Here's the best video I could find, showing the "Swampus" (starting at ~1:20 min) and the "Megasquid":

Swampus: an amphibious octopus that can live in water and land, 4 of their 8 tentacles are modified in form of foots. It lives in swamps 100 million years from now.

Megasquid: an elephant-sized omnivorous terrestrial squid. Its 8 arms have evolved into walking legs. Lives in rainforests of 200 million years from now. It uses the two long tentacles for feeding.

So, if such creations can evolve after man, why not before man? Although it is very unlikeley, we can not rule it out, who knows what's down in the oceans' extreme depth? We only discovered tiny fractions of our oceans, and considering they cover 7/10 of earth, we're gonna find a lot of previously non-imagible creatures down there...

Has somebody ever considered, that we could find the next intelligent species besides mankind in the inner space, instead of outer space? Ever heard of "The Swarm"? Without spoiling the content, the lifeform from the book is highly exotic, but considering its accurate representation of marine biology, geophysics and geology, it wouldn't be impossible I guess?!

Originally posted by JanusFIN
Very strange looking creature indeed!

news.nationalgeographic.com...

Does anybody know what is it, or might be?

I was about to yell at you saying they explicitly stated that it is a Magnapinna squid - thinking you're the 15 yr old type that just wants to get everybody riled up over the "alien" issue.

but then I saw your rolling eyes.

thanks for showing me this.. very cool.

then again...

with so much "alien" crap on CNN, etc...
for national geo to go ahead and insert the verbiage of "alien" in their footage.. if not for lack of a better descriptor...

sounds like the term is being upped in usage in the mainstream...
just to notch up the awareness of the concept..

could be wrong.. but that's what it seems like.

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It’s a freaky looking thing. But it makes you think, what other species are already here at the depths of the ocean that we haven’t yet seen or found. There must be so many animals and species here on our own planet that we are yet to discover, let alone in outer space.

Mikey

Now thats some thing you don't see every day Makes you wonder what other things we don't know about under our sea

Kinda reminds me of the part in the movie Independence day when the scientist says hey do ya wanna see them? Then they go to the vault and he says Some of us call this the freak show and you see the dead aliens in the big tubes.

At this link you can find other "Cephalopods in Action"

www.mnh.si.edu...

(it's a one line with a second link-line )